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...Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after the War; Vice-Admiral in '90; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral, '04; Chief of Naval Staff. '05; Supreme War Councillor, '09; Admiral of Fleet in 'i 2. Attended King George's Cor- onation on the suite of Prince Higashi-Fushimi; was at a time Lord Tutor to the Crown Prince (Emperor...
Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke & Earl of England,* 16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel. presided last week at the exciting ceremony of removing from Arundel Castle's hoary vault the skeleton of his potent ancestor, the 13th Earl of Arundel, dead 336 years...
...people?a body of travelers not self-invited, with their minds occupied by thoughts of society reporters or fashionable dressmakers, but mothers invited by the Government of the United States to make their first and last visit to the graves of their sons in France who fell in the 27th and 30th divisions of the American Army, fighting under British command by the side of their comrades of the British Army...
Fossils. Notable among the Manhattan Press meetings was the congress of Fossils. Founded at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Fossils were originally titled the National Amateur Press Association, were 1,400 strong. As Fossils, this year's was the 27th annual reunion. Members fore-gathered in lower Manhattan at the Fossil Library, where musty walls and showcases are filled with nearly 40,000 amateur newspapers, clippings, photographs, relics. With the advent of the linotype, Fossils regretfully remember, boy-edited journalism gradually passed away. Membership in the organization is gained by presenting a copy of a nonprofessional, personally published paper...
Died. William Howard Taft, 72, 27th President of the U.S., loth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.; at Washington; of arteriosclerosis, myocarditis, cystitis...